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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

How the ballot is conducted in the South
John r. Lynch in his speech before the Re-
publican clubs. Another bit of testimony
was the letter from Hon. John S. Wise, of
Virginia, who, among other things, wrote:
'In my city are two precincts each having
about nine hundred voters. One is almost
solid Democratic, the other almost solid Re-
publican. In the Democratic precinct every
vote was cast without molestation; but two
men of the whole enrolled vote were chal-
lenged there was never crowd, and the
entire vote was delivered long before the sun
went down. If the Republicans had at
tempted, by delays or challenge, to interrupt
the vote at that precinct, riot and bloodshed
would have been the result. AT the Repnb-
lican precinct notorious murderer, perjurer
and scoundrel was chosen to act as Democratic
manager, and under him lawyers and gentle
men were chosen to serve. Almost every
voter was challenged, gray haired men were
delayed with questions to whether they
were twenty-one years of age; time was
sumed in administering oaths and delays on
every pretext resorted to, so that the long line
of voters remained all day at the polls. and
but six hundred votes were cast when the
went down. By this means, resorted to in all
Republican strongholds, the city went Dem
ocratic and the returns are called honest, not
withstanding these palpable outrages.
pray that the honest voters of this country,
where elections are free, may in time wake upat
finding how the solid South has clutched this
Nation by the throat, and that they may rise
in their majesty and hberate the real ma
iority of this section from its bondage to
base minority"
Now is there anybody foolish enough to
think that the cry of ''bloody shirt" from
suffrage thieves and vote-killers, echoed by
Northern milksops, will prevent mon with
red blood in their veins from crying aloud
against this outrage until it shall be stopped,
if it takes hundred years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

Senate rejected two nominations for SUPREME
Judge made by President Grant-Caleb
Gushing and Attorney general Hoar. But
neither of these had served in the Senate, and
were not entitled to senatorial courtesy. IF
Mr.. Lamar is confirmed it will be in spite Of
his admitted unftness. and he will owe his
position on the Supreme Bench, first, to the
action of President Cleveland in making a
convenience of the Office to secure reorgani-
zation of his Cabinet. and. second, to the op-
Grafton of the silly and senseless tradition
called Senatorial courtesy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

e. A MUGwU3IP subscriber, after reading yes
terday's Journal, inquiries, irritably. what
space the paper will devote to politics six
with fourteen columns of straight Republic
anism per issue. For the information, if not
the satisfaction, Of readers of this unhappy
class, the statement is hereby made that
while there will be some variation from day
to day in the amount of matter printed on the
subject, there will be great deal of politics
in the Journal during the next ten months,
and it will be mighty interesting reading, too.
Now is the time to subscribe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22
THE TARIFp ON WOOL
whatever.

Mr.. Cleveland's twaddle about the duty on
wool is fair specimen of the stubbornness
with which Democratic politician utterly
refuses to learn anything about the principles
or objects of tariff on foreign products
brought to this country for sale. The Presi-
dent argues the subject as if the only purpose
of putting tariff on imported wool to
enhance the price of American wool, and
thereby enable the American woolgrower to
realize larger profit on his wool product. It
is not odd that a man who goes no deeper
into the subject than this should come to the
conclusion the President has reached.
If Mr.. Cleveland, in all his life, had given
even single day to the study of the ideas
and principles of the protectionists, he never
would have honestly written as he has concern
ing the tariff on wool. He would have learned
that the object of the protectionists was not
at all to make wool dearer, but cheaper.
Protectionists urge-and they have the actual
results of century of experience to back
them in doing so-that tariff on any foreign
product that we can raise or manufacture as
readily in this country as it can be raised or
manufactured elsewhere, always results in
making the article cheaper than it is when we
rely solely on the foreign supply. The sole
purpose of the tariff wool is to educate our
own people in the art, so to speak, of wool
growing, in order that they, by superior
intelligence, experience in the business, and
the requirement of knowledge the subject,
may be enabled to produce wool in such
abundance, by new and improved methods,
that they can sell wool much cheaper than
they do now--sell more of it, and yet realize
larger profit on the pound than they do at
present. If there is fair prospect that this
object can be accomplished, who will say it is
not the part of a wise craftsmanship to under
take its accomplishment
The tariff on manufactures has educated
our people in handicraft so that we can pro-
duce goods for less than half we formerly paid
for them, and under this policy we not only
get cheaper goods, but furnish work for our
laborers at higher wages than they received
in former times. IF we, by tariff on wool,
can induce our farmers in all parts of the
country to turn their attention to sheep hus-
bandry, to study the subject, to experiment
with new breeds of sheep, and to adopt new
and less expensive methods of raising and
caring for sheep shall we not ultimately pro-
duce all the wool need at cheaper rates
than now pay? The farmers business
will be diversified; there will be an additional
product to sell from the farm each year, and
3here will be new demand for labor. Mr..
Cleveland should have known-and he could
easily have learned it If he wished to-that
the main purpose of tariff for protection is
to educate our own people in the production
of whatever we need, so that by superior
knowledge, superior skill and superior meth
DDS, we shall ultimately be independent of
foreign nations, furnish work for our own
laborers, and yet get all we want at less cost
than we can hope to do so long as we depend
on foreign supply
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE daughter of Gen. Logan married a Mr.
Tucker. Ex.Congressman fuckers daughter
married Mr. Logan. A son has been the fruit
of marriage in each instance and the boys bear
respectively the names Logan Tucker and
Tucker Logan.
THE Hon. Samuel G. Colley has recently cele-
bpated at Beloit. Wisconsin. his eightieth birth
day anniversary. He is the last survivor of
the company which in 1886 was formed in New
Hampshire to found and develope town in the
then far West and which established Beloit.
A'coUNTRYMAN who visited New York theater
the other evening and went cut between the
acts. became greatly troubled on his return be-
cause he couldn't find his wife. He had lost his
seat checks and didn't know what to do.
Finally sympathetic usher took pity on him
and went through the house asking each lady
he came to if she had lost husband until he
discovered the rural gentleman's bride.
Miss ANNA E. DICKINSON, who has been i'll
for nearly year, is slowly improving, and VIII
shortly leave her home at Homesdale, Pa, for
Florida, where she will winter. Miss Dickin-
sons illness is due wholly to over work and
worry, and her physicians prescribe a long rest
as the surest cure She will go south accom-
panied by friend. while her faithful sister,
Susan E. Dickinson. will remain to for the
aged mother. also an invalid. Miss Dickin-
expects to undertake pen work as soon she
returns in the spring
warfare died few days ago in Georgetown, D.
C. Francis Edgar Shepherd came of an old
North Carolina family. was educated at the
Annapolis Naval School, and at the outbreak of
the war entered the confederate navy. just
twenty-five years ago this month Shepherd
blew up the United States gunboat Cairo,
the Mississippi, by means of an old-fashioned
torpedo Capt. Shepherd watched the explo-
sion from the bank of the river, and declared
that torpedo warfare was cowardly. He never
again set torpedo.
THE congressional directory is always an in
teresting work. mans autobiography, no
matter how short it may be. is certain to give
some insight into his character. The life
sketches made by the members of the Fiftieth
Congress are full of quaint things. Congress
man Marion Biggs, of California. says he is "a
farmer BY profession" E. Burnett of Massa-
chusetts informs the curious that he married
the only child of James Russell Lowell in 1872"
H F. Finley. of Kentucky, says that he began
life for himself without an education sufficient
export says he was opposed for Governor of
New York State by David b. Hill.
BARON VoRwARTs has near Stavenhagen, in
Mecklenburg, an estate of about 5000 acres. 1t
is chiefly devoted to wheat and beetroot, and is
worked by its owner a form OF cooperation;
and although the times bad, he is still able
to make good profit the capital value of his
estate. He is his own farmer He pays very
small wages i'll money. but the laborer is pro-
vided with a house. a supply of corn, piece of
grazing land, the means of education, and other
advantages which enable him to live in comfort.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

4 MEMORIAL presented to the Senate, asking
for a new extradition treaty with Canada,
covering cases of embezzlement, gave list of
ffty-three embellishments and the amounts in
each case. The largest is that of Bartholo-
new, the insurance man, OF Hartford for
$1,000, o00, and the aggregate embellishments
foot up the sum of S., s40,570. This repre-
seDts pretty steady flow of capital from the
United States to Canada without any apparent
compensation. There ought to be reciprocity
of some kind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22
SOMETHING quite out of the common is the

SOMETHING quite out of the common is the
request made of the County Commissioners
by an old man with S. 900, in government
bonds to support him the remainder of his
life. The interest on the bonds which he
offers in exchange for quarters in the poor
house is probably fair equivalent, while the
offer to bequeath the bonds to the county at
death is quite munifcent. Probably good
many philanthropists would gladly undertake
the old mans support on these terms, but he
prefers corporate benevolence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

SAID cns of the New York speakers at the
late Republican club conventions: 1--WE in
New Iork have some experience in fighting
the Democracy" Well, the experience must
not be very satisfactory to themselves. and it
certainly is not to the Republicans of other
States. Suppose the Republicans of New
York try the experiment of fighting the
Democracy with something else than Quaker
guns and sugar-coated homeopathic pellets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

OUR wool manufacturers languish because
the tax on imported wool, cleaned and ready
for use, is quite 100 per cent; but make wool
free, and our manufacturers will do two
things. First they will occupy our whole
home market, and, second, they will create
such demand for wool to increase the
price of it for our own wool growers.-New
York Star.
So says doctrinaire, lawyer, who never
grew pound of wool in his life or manufact-
ured yard of WOODEN goods. On the contrary,
the men engaged in the wool industry insist
that the Stars policy would ruin them,
growers and manufacturers alike, except
possibly, few of the latter located near the
seaboard, where everybody IS for free imports
for purely selfish reasons. caring nothing for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

THE abolition of slavery in Brazil by grad
ual emancipation makes rather slow progress.
The laws now in force will eventually accom-
plish the result but the progress of the move
ment does not keep pace with the spirit of the
age nor with the desires of the opponents of
slavery. The Emperor Dom Pedro has been
steady friend of emancipation and now the
influence Of the Roman Catholic Church is
actively used in the same direction. AT a
recent meeting of Shareholders in one Of the
provinces it was decided to hold an adjourned
meeting during this month of all planters
who willing to agree on general emanci-
patton not later than the end of 1890 Even
this will DE considerably in advance of the
operation of the present law. In this connec-
ton it is said to be matter of very general
belief in Brazil, especially among the slave
owners that the extinction Of slavery will in
about the dethronement of liking Coffee as
the great staple of Brazil, it being considered
impracticable to carry coffee planting with
out slave labor or its equivalent-coolie labor
It is not at all likely this expectation will be
realized. Similar fears were entertained in
this country relative to cotton culture, which
said to be absolutely dependant on slave
labor. Southern SHAREHOLDERS predicted that
if slavery ever was abolished there would be
an end of cotton raisi ng in the South. In
stead Of that the South has produced great
deal more cotton since the abolition of slavery
than it did before. Free labor is proved to be
far more efficient and productive than slave
labor. This might easily have been antici-
pated if the planters had stopped to think
that given number of laborers working for
themselves or for wages would certainly ac-
complish better results than when working
under the lash for others. And so it has
proved. The abolition of slavery, which some
thought would prove the ruin of the South,
has proved its salvation. In all probability it
will be the same in Brazil with coffee culture.
Why should the emancipation of the slaves
destroy that industry The climate, the soil,
the men and the market will still be there the
only difference being that the labor will be
free instead of slave. If we were to venture
prediction it would be that Brazil will produce
more coffee after the abolition of slavery than
ever before.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

The Baron is content with per cent interest as
his own share; and once in ten years he divided
the remainder of the profits in equitable pro-
portions among the peasantry. At the last di-
vision, which took place in 1884, as much as
5000 or $3.50 fell to the share of single family.
This excellent landlord lives among his people,
and has completely identified himself with
their well-being that the peasants do not speak
of 1.-The Raron's wheat or horses but of our
wheat and Tour horses" The Baron believes
that so far as agriculture Is concerned he has
discovered the means of harmonizing the inter
estS of capital with those of labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

Mr.. HENRY GEORGE does not have any
difficulty in interpreting Mr.. Clevelands mes
sage. There is no halfway house between
the principle of protection and the theory of
free trade. All else is mere question of de-
tail. A man Is either In favor of protection
or of free trade. and, if he is an honest man,
will say Whatever step he takes is a
step toward his principle or away from it.
Every word in Mr.. Cleveland's message was
for free trade and in denunciation of the prin-
ciple of protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

the remainder of the country. Who is likely
to know the best theoretical lawyer who
would not know wool if he should see it, or
the who have spent their lives and
invested their money and their labor in the
b1cinecs2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

to supply the demand. The result is wide
spread suffering. 1t is difficult to conceive of
a more terrible condition than that OF women
and children exposed to the freezing blasts of
Kansas blizzard, in frame houses that fur
nish but slight protection, and with no fuel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

THE movement for Frank Hurd, of Ohio,
for Vice president on the Democratic ticket
should succeed. ticket of Cleveland and
Hurd, with the Presidents message as a
platform, would at least have the merit of
candor and courage of conviction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

Mr.. GEO. MERRITT, one Of our well-known
manufacturers. favors the Journal with a
tariff talk, in which he gives some excellent
reasons why the duty on foreign wool should
not be repealed. His reasons relate to the
sheep and wool industry well as to wooden
man ufactures, and are OF nature 20 interest
all classes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

THE New York Post argues that Lamar's
confirmation should not be objected to on
account of his age and cites cases to show
that Supreme Court commission is pro-
moter of longevity. That's just the trouble;
if it were reasonably certain that the country
would have to stand him for only year or so
fewer objections would be made
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22
Learning Caution.
New York Mail and Express.

New YORK
How quickly the English free-traders were
warned probably by their American disciples,
of the danger from the standpoint of their own
interests of the TOO frank outbursts of English
iov over Mr. Cleyeland's messagel 1t is well not
this earnest warning viz: English free-traders
would be well advised if they moderated the
ecstasy of their jubilation over President Cleve-
lands message. Every word which they say III
its favor will be used as a powerful argument
against the adoption of its recommendations !"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

THE situation in western Kansas is very
pitiful. The wide and naturally barren plains
# that region devoid of anything that can
be used for fuel, and the people are entirely
dependent on railroads for fuel With an
insufficient supply of coal and of cars to haul
-shat they have, the roads are utterly unable
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

PosTOFFIcE Department officials at Wash
ington are aware of the fact that mail matter
sometimes remains in the Indianapolis Office
from two to three days before it is dispatch ed
to its destination. Yet they refuse to allow
a sufficient force to handle the mail and
transact the business of the office properly.
The entire community is interes ted in having
this state Of things reformed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22
They Make Us Tired.

The political prophet is blossoming out brill
iantly just now. He THINKS Blaine will be
nominated; he thinks Blaine VIII not be nomin-
ated; he thinks Cleveland will be nominated; hs
thinks Cleveland viii not be nominated. And
prophet is the sort of prophet that should be-
without honor. not only in his own country but
throughout the whole earth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

SAY now, you people who are virtuously OPP
posed to prize fighting, up that if there
must be prize fighting, You glad our is
ahead As a matter of patrio tism if not of
principle. wouldn't you have felt a slight pang
of regret had our wn Kilrain been whipped by
the Englishman of the name of Smith!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

IT takes good deal to knock the conceit
out of Englishmen, but after they have been
beaten by Americans in a few more yacht
races and prize fights they will begin to con-
clude that they do not know it all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

message. The London Saturday Review
says: 1.-THE President cautiously declines to
dub himself free trader, but he takes up
free trade position without disguise. He and
taken up the old free-trade policy of the South
Carolina politicians
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

THE domestic tragedy at Troy \. Y, in which
killed his wife, motherin-law, step
daughter and finally himself. was the direct re-
suit of his having married for money. And yet
there impeeunious men all over the country
trying to acquire wealth in precisely the same
way who will refuse to be warned by the Troy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22
Democratic raunt OF the mugwump


Mr.. Higgins has given up his post beesuse he
was tired of it. and because purely practical
political work Is more to his taste than govern
ment clerking He has held his place long
enough to see the mugwumps brought TO moth
ing and made an involuntary annex to an adj
ministration which they have vainly endeavored
to control.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

and promptuess and then what surplus is left
let il De divided among the States according TO
population. to % used for educational purposes.
thus relieving the people Of some of the direct
taxes for that purpose"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

THE discovery by an Iowa sheriff of a bomb
whose explosion tore a great hole through his
overcoat." should these officials to be on
their guard The loaded gas pipe is not to be
trified with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

So far as the Republicans concerned it
will not be still hunt. Unless the enemy
fatty declines to stand up and be knocked
down it will be fair fight in an open field
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

II Mr.. Sullivan wishes to make the great
est hit of his life he should challenge Smith
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

INDIANA Republicans are cup and coming
Take notice, We slow-moving, phlegmatic CO.
horts of New York and down chat a-away.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

"HARMoNIoUsr Why, it more than
harmonious. 1t was a Republican revival
regular love feast
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-22

Telephone Calls
Business Office Editorial Rooms 242
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WASHINGTON. y. C.-Riggs House and Ebbi
House.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-20
MRS. CLEvELAND's INVENTION.

strings. 1t looks like a big lamp mat
when stretched out fiat, but when it is
folded and pinchcd ana pleated it becomes
really very becoming to the pretty wearer.
None other dare wear it, but look at the
colossal check of asking such a price-yes,
and getting it, too. This style is said to
have been invented by Mrs. Cleveland.
can imagine she would look lovely in it.
Last summer l saw this same milliner Of
whom l am writing make an openwork
Bonnet out of tinsel threads, upon which
she sewed q bunch of blue forget menots,
and absolutely no other trimming, and
she sold the bonnet for $50 to wealthy
woman, pretending it to be imported and
promising not to duplicate it!
OLIVE HARPER.